If there is a way to make money without doing any work, you will find it.
These were the words that my Mother issued to me when I was 12 years old. She meant it as passive aggressive way of calling me LAZY, but I took it as a challenge.
Since that day I have been scheming and dreaming up ways to make money with minimal work.
After decades of coming up with ideas, I concluded that in order to make some money you do need to put in the work, HOWEVER – if the work you are doing is something you enjoy, it ceases to be work.
Thus, if you can find a way to make money doing something you truly love and enjoy, then you will have found a way to make money without doing any work.
Hi my name is Chris Whiteley and I was born for the world of side hustles and entrepreneurship. No one in my family has ever held a traditional 9-5 job, and I felt it was my birth right to also not hold a 9-5 job.
In high school, I did hold the stereotypical jobs that most teenagers had and during the vast majority of my shifts, I dreamed about all the ways I could earn a living without having to work.
It wasn’t until I was 20 years old until I finally took the plunge and started my first side hustle.
I purchased a 1 mega pixel digital camera for $500 and I was going to make movies and commercials for businesses. The problem was, I had no way of getting my service in front of people. It was from here that my life was going to change.
It was the late 90s, around the time of the Dot Com Boom and I decide that the best way to reach my customers was through a website. I had no idea how to build a website, so I went down to my local book store and picked up a copy of “Teach Yourself Visually HTML.”
I followed all the steps in that book and built my first website.
After my website was launched, no one wanted me to create a commercial for them. Instead, people were asking who built my website.
Being able to build a website in the late 90s was a pretty rare skill, and suddenly people were chasing me down to build them a website.
I was making money doing something that I loved and enjoyed. I had fulfilled my Mother’s prophesy of me being able to find a way to make money without doing any work.
Aside from finding a way to make money doing something I love, the biggest impact on my life was working at McDonalds, where I learned the importance of frameworks. Every single job at McDonalds has what is referred to as an SOC – a “Station Observation Checklist.” Basically this was a standard operating procedure that allowed every person across every McDonalds to be able to do the same job in the exact same way.
At McDonalds, I fell in love with Frameworks.
This website is a combination of the 2 things I love: side hustles and frameworks. Join me as I share all my ideas on how to make money doing something you love using simplified, easy to follow frameworks.